Windows 11 widgets; how to remove these annoying news feed windows in the Widgets panel?

Anonymous
2022-03-21T19:23:48+00:00

When hovering over or clicking on the Widgets shortcut the panel appears with ~50 of these stupid little windows all showing news feeds.

I don't mind the weather and a very few other widgets that show something useful but all of these news panels are pointless, annoying, and really leaning me more towards going back to Windows 10 where I can have real Live Tiles again without this excess junk.

How can we really customize this panel and remove all these unwanted news panels?

I have closed them with the upper-right 'X' which leaves them blank until the next time the panel opens.

I have chosen to 'Hide stories' from at least 100 different news agencies, but they continue to appear.

I have gone through the MS account 'personalize your interests' option to remove all possible genres of news.

Nothing removes the amount of windows shown or the genre of news that they continue to show.

I don't want to change what these little windows show, I want to delete the majority of the windows altogether so that only 4 or 5 at the most are there.

And why are these limited to these news feed type windows; weather, stocks, etc?

Why can't we create custom application shortcut widgets like in old Windows 7 & 8.1 add-ons with advanced options?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-10-17T09:23:47+00:00

    The command winget uninstall MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy removed the news feed completely but left the Icon on the taskbar, How do I remove the icon?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-07T17:15:29+00:00

    News feed is trash and its content has no business being forced on Enterprise licensed versions of the OS

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-08-13T19:50:59+00:00

    over this last year+ i have helped many users "upgrade" to Windows 11.

    i'd say about 30% of them invited me back over to revert them back to Windows 10 or even Linux based OS because they also can't stand the **** MS has added into 11.

    there is almost as much spyware, bs news, and dumbed down options that it resembles more of a handheld device with Google data collection going on.

    i'm still going strong on Windows 10 even though they have also started trying to add some of the same sorts of junk within some of these updates.

    now we have "News Feed & Media" processes trying to run in the background, pointless "Gaming Services" and others like more MS Edge junk.

    definitely gets annoying having to track these processes down and manually delete them while MS is trying to prevent that from happening.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-13T07:20:19+00:00

    I guess they decided that the ad bucks are more important than the feelings of the people posting here, ie. Windows users.

    Like so many other things, the enshittification spreads.

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